Random Harvest has permanently closed at 7766 Woodmont Avenue in Bethesda. The local furniture store chain's Georgetown and Old Town Alexandria locations remain open. Random Harvest's space has been marketed for lease since 2017, even as the store continued to operate for six more years. The Woodmont Crescent building is marketing its now-empty ground floor spaces as ideal for a new restaurant tenant.
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The area around Veterans Plaza is starting to resemble Baltimore's Harborplace or even Times Square back in the 1980s. The decline seems to have started with that skateboard shop several years ago, and accelerated with the "smoke" shops and more recently the fortune teller.
what is wrong with the skate shop? its a welcoming fun space, independent and encourages kids with lessons and a free safe internal skating space.
I agree overall but honestly the Bethesda boards is a great place
Nice of you to conveniently leave out the addition of the brand new Trader Joe’s and Marriot headquarters/hotel, all less than a block away. God forbid that we lose a furniture store that no one ever shopped at. How many times did you shop there? I bet it is no where near the volume that people frequent Trader Joe’s.
5:11 is just an angry old troll made that he can't skate, and doesn't know how to roll his own joints. Ignore.
This store and the old Blue House space next door are prime real estate. Across from the busiest restaurant in Bethesda (Woodmont Grill), next to the central gathering space (Starbucks) and across from the largest headquarters in Bethesda (Marriott).
Probably the best situation will be for that building as well as the one fronting Veterans Plaza to be torn down and replaced with high-rise mixed-use buildings. It won't be the Veterans Plaza that we knew and loved a decade or two ago, but it will be better than the seediness that we have right now.
Focus on preserving Cordell Avenue and Norfolk Avenue between DelRay and St. Elmo Avenues as the remnant of the Woodmont Triangle that we used to know. All the other blocks are gone.
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